Packing for refrigerator-doors.



G. A. JOHNSON.

PACKING FOR REFRIGERATOR DOORS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG H 1,13,38, Patented May 11, 1915.

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Gnome A. :ronnson, or 01110330, ILLIuoIs, ASSIGNOR r'o w. H. MINER, orCHICAGO,

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PACKING run anraIGEaAroa-nooas.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed August 11, 1913. Serial No. 784,042. 1

To all :whom it may concern Be 1t known that/I, GEORGE A. J OHNBON,

acitizen of the United States, residing at Ch1cago,1n the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Packing for Refrigerator-Doors, of which the followin isa full, clear, concise, and exact description,

reference being had to the accompanyingeflicient operation.

In the drawings forming a part of this .specification Figure 1 is across section of the meeting edges of a hinged door, and the wall ordoor-frame surrounding the same, Iand'showing the door in open position;Fig. 2 is a plan view of a' 'ortion of said wall, the covering thereofbeing partly broken away to show the groove therein; F1g.3 1s a crosssection of the meeting edges of a door and the wall surrounding the samewith the door illustrated inclosedposition.

Referring to the drawings arep'resents a door, the edge thereof onlybeing shown in the drawings, 5 a hinge by means of which the said dooris hinged to-the door-frame or Wall 6 surrounding the door. The saidwall surrounding the door is provided with a groove 7 longitudinallyextended therein,

having a central longitudinally disposed bead 8 forming with the sidesof the cove a recess 9 at either side of said bea Securedto said bead,preferably bythe screws 10, is a resilient or yielding backing strip 11,the same being preferably formed ofa strip of spring material bowed ateither edge 12, 12, tlie meeting edges 13, 13 of the material-of whichit is formed being overlapped, as illustrated at the numeral 14:, and

perforated at intervals, as illustrated ,at the.

numeral 15, to receive a screw 10, by means of which the over-lappingedges. of the spring material areheld together and secured to" saidbead. In the outer wall 16 ofsaid backing strip there are provided atsuitable intervals the apertures 17 through 'which, the sprews 10 'maybe passed in mounting the backing strip within the groove 7. The bowededges 12 of the backand on closing of the door when the inneredge23 ofthe door engages the yielding 'material the same is compressed betweenthe bearing faces 18 of the yielding backing strip and the edge 23 ofthe door, the resistmg backingstrip being meanwhile compressed, and thebowed ends thereof forced rearwardly' into the depressions 9, 9 ateither side of thebead 8 within the groove 7 a in the wall surroundingthe door. d I claim In a acking fordoors of refrigerator cars an thelike, the combination with a door and an adjacent member having meetingedges when the door is in closed position, one of said edges beingprovided with a longitudinally extending groove therein,

of yieldable, flexible, facing material bridging saidgroove, andyielding'means for 9o spring ingly engaging said material along twospaced parallel lines, whereby when the door is in closed position, saidmaterial is pressed into engagement with the adjacent edge along saidspaced lines and said materlal between said lines is kept in contactwith the adjacent edge to thereby provide a wide surface contact betweenthe meetmgedges of the door and adjacent member.

GEORGE JQHNSQN. I

Witnessesi JOHN A. Man'rmxnns, ELEANOR LrNAsH.

